Oversaw major Atlantic City planning and development, including a new master plan.

Formed the Committee to Rebuild Atlantic City (CRAC) in 1976.

Sat on Planning Board as mayor.

Quotes:

"I believe the government shouldn't be a dictatorship. I don't believe in running and buttonholing people and saying, ‘I want you to vote this way on this or that way on that.;"

"When a person is quietly and honestly doing a job and people have no real criticism, the first thing they say is the leader can't make a decision. But I've made plenty of decisions. And when history is in, history will probably record that this is the most effective period of leadership the city has ever had."